QUINCY, Fla. (WTXL) — The National Weather Service is surveying damage from a confirmed EF-1 tornado Wednesday evening in Gadsden County.
Twenty seconds that felt like an hour. That's how one man described Wednesday's tornado in Quincy.
There are days of work ahead for the people in the St. John community in Quincy.
The people in the St. John neighborhood wasted no time coming out and banding together to clean up the mess mother nature left behind.
Massive trees flew through the small community, and at least three homes were destroyed. Almost every home in neighborhood saw some form of damage.
Now, every yard in the community is full of family, friends, and neighbors pitching in.
Someone's mattress is now left lying on the ground, their bedroom left wide open after the tornado tore through.
Gadsden County Sheriff's Office says about 11 homes are left with some sort of damage, from a room completely torn away from the foundation to cracked and shattered windows.
The mostly wooded neighborhood was blocked off throughout much of the night with dozens of trees littering the ground.
Morris Sanders says this was the first time he's ever dealt with a storm like this.
"It sounded like a freight train," said Sanders. "And then we could just hear all of the trees falling. It went 'woooooo' like that. We wanted to run, but we didn't know where to run, so we ran to the closet. It didn't last but maybe 20 seconds and then it went that way."
The good news in all of this, despite all the damage, no one was hurt according to authorities responding to the scene.
The Red Cross says they've already helped nearly a dozen families and are continuing to reach out to see if anyone else needs assistance.
